"If
the American people ever allow the banks to control the issuance of their
currency, first by inflation, and then by deflation, the banks and corporations
that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property,
until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.
The issuing power of money should be taken from banks and restored to
Congress and the people to whom it belongs. I sincerely believe the banking
institutions having the issuing power of money, are more dangerous to
liberty than standing armies." ~ Thomas Jefferson

Despite
clever word smithing coming out of the mouths of polished politicians
and high paid illusion artists for networks like FOX (in
for a very rough 2008) News, only someone in extreme denial can ignore
the true state of America's economy. I've written about it for years,
warning people that while Congress continues to write hot checks, kissed,
blessed and signed off by whatever banking cartel water boy is sitting
in the White House, the powder keg was just waiting to blow. BOOM.

With
two or three exceptions (Dr. Ron Paul being the stand out), the U.S. House
of Representatives, comprised of useful fools, the functionally illiterate
and stinking buzzards, has just passed another monumental piece of lunacy
called an "economic stimulus package." This $1.5 BILLION dollar shell
game will stimulate nothing and let me tell you why.

One:
There is no money in the U.S. Treasury. As I write this column, the people's
purse is overdrawn $9,203,187,681,379.26. Every one of those "economic
stimulus package" checks sent out to the American people will be a hot
check written against an account that's over drawn $9.2 TRILLION DOLLARS.
How can Congress do this? They do it by borrowing from the unconstitutional
central bank called the "Federal" Reserve. By the time the interest is
paid on this grotesque "stimulus package," the tab will be $3 BILLION
dollars.

Two:
There will be no economic stimulus because this is just another Band Aid
being applied in an attempt to stop the patient on the operating table
from hemorrhaging to death. Whatever the amount, at this time it appears
to be a $600.00 hot check to individuals and a $1200.00 hot check to couples,
it will get spent right away. Because tens of millions of Americans are
living paycheck to paycheck, it's doubtful these 'hot bux' will go into
a savings account. Off the struggling middle class will go to Wal Mart
to buy needed products made in commie China, which increases the trade
deficit that most Americans neither understand nor have any interest in
because daily survival is all consuming.

Third:
Now that this quick fix called 'hot bux' is spent, what did it accomplish?
Like a heroin junkie, flash bang, but then right back to reality and looking
for the next fix. Let's not forget that these hot checks might be in the
mail sometime in May - almost four months down the road. Yesterday's rate
drop by the
privately owned "FED" will not be felt for six-eight months down
the road, long after many more Americans will have already drowned
and small businesses had their 'final liquidation - going out of business'
sales.

Fourth:
Here's the part that proves these miscreants in Congress are not only
unfit for office, but border on the brink of mental illness - ILLEGAL
aliens will also get these "tax rebates." No, you're not reading that
wrong. Comrade Pelosi and her gang of nitwits passed this bill which contains
a provision to give criminals (illegals who smuggle themselves across
our borders) who "earn" $3,000 per year by stealing jobs they have
no legal right to have, a $300.00 hot check and your children and
grand babies will be the ones to inherit the debt. Yesterday, the counterfeit
senate scared for their political future this November, killed that provision
in their version of this grotesque "stimulus" package; who knows what
the final carrot will look like.

Fifth:
The massive "entitlement" programs already gasping for some sort of life
line, are now like full grown hippos looking to mother government to bail
them out for another month, then another month, then another month. If
you missed Carolyn Lochhead's bombshell
column back in 2004, she gave the numbers that shocked a whole lot
of people - except Congress who remained in their delusional states of
self-importance as the cancer continued to fester. BOOM.

Isn't
that a great solution to our "ailing economy"? There's no money in the
treasury, but Congress, signed off by Bush, will run up another $3 BILLION
borrowed dollars in debt. Cuckoo! Cuckoo! If Democrats think Pelosi's
House is going to do anything to stop what's coming,
just think of this past year under her "leadership": chaos and fluff and
puff while our soldiers continue to die in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[Correction:
I made a typo. The economic stimulus package at this time is $150 billion,
not $1.5 billion. I left off the zero. By the time the interest is paid
to the privately owned FED, it will be roughly $300 billion borrowed dollars.]

On January
23, 2008, I went in search of a tent city located in Ontario, California,
about a 45-minute drive (depending on traffic) East of LA. While I had
an approximate idea of the location, West end of the Ontario Airport,
I knew I would have to do a little bit of searching. It didn't take long.
The stench of human waste and garbage was so over powering, I picked it
up a half mile away.

This
tent city is shocking to see up close. It is reminiscent of photos from
the artificially engineered
Great Depression, only in living color. The city is doing their best
to help these folks, but that cost gets passed on to the productive in
Ontario and the county itself in higher taxes.

One
young man I interviewed asked me not to take his photo because he's looking
for work. While the majority of Americans living at this tent city are
simply those left with no place to go for various reasons, this 30-ish,
educated American lost his home through foreclosure several months ago.
As he sat, stroking his cat, a sad story emerged. Caught up in the hype
about the glorious state of the economy, he and his wife bought a house
with an ARM (adjustable rate mortgage) in a high ticket market. When it
came time to face the reality of a bigger payment, credit card debt to
the max and little savings, the first loss was the house, then the marriage
due to stress and then his job.

If you
think this tent city is just a bunch of bums, not true. The city has stepped
in with out houses and getting children transported to local schools.
The adults milling around were dressed middle class, some cooking over
open fires, others in groups talking. I asked one lady who came near the
curb to dump some water if she wouldn't mind speaking with me? She said
yes, but was defensive because a lot of media have been around and apparently
some of the coverage has been less than kind. Single mother with two children;
husband skipped out so there's no help there. Evicted because she couldn't
pay her rent with the taxes eating both of her paychecks - Mr. Bush's
idea of the American dream: multiple, low paying jobs while our good jobs
are destroyed through trade treaties signed by him, his father and Bill
Clinton. The conversation moved to the high cost of everything and despair.
This in a land rich in human and natural resources. I left this tent city
knowing it's not going to be the last one on the American landscape.

In their
effort to shore up disaster, Congress and the thieves at the FED have
been bailing out Wall Street, the bankers and their own backsides. After
all, it's not the little guy out there filling their campaign coffers
with ill gotten gains, it's the corporations that own them right along
with their magical money machine, the "Federal" Reserve. As the carnage
begins to spread deeper into American households, Americans will demand
more and more from mother government to bail out their bacon. Of course,
it never seems to sink in that it's the American people themselves who
reelect (with the help of high tech rigging) the same crooks who continue
to spend recklessly on unconstitutional expenditures; just
read this one. Bring home the bacon? Nothing like getting fat off
the hog and then dropping dead from all that pork.

So few
Americans understand the relationship between
the FED and their wallet. They have little or no understanding of
the money trail between the IRS and the FED. Those who do have been buying
gold as a hedge against what IS already underway. I'm not a gold dealer,
but if you're considering protecting what you have left, I always recommend
El Dorado Gold. Professional
like Harvey (Phoenix) 602.228.8203 and Eric (Florida) 623.643.8786, are
highly knowledgeable and can get you on the right path to financial security.
I get sick just thinking about the real time jeopardy to the trillion
dollars in pension funds at risk right along with 401K savings; here's
just one example. How many times have I encouraged Americans to listen
to David Walker, Comptroller General of these united States of America
trying to warn the American people about the financial tsunami that is
now building speed? Too many to count along with hundreds of other writers.

Ron
Paul has a bill lingering in Congress since July 15, 2007, to abolish
the unconstitutional Federal Reserve. There are no sponsors. Why?
Because without the central bank to borrow from on a daily basis, Congress
would be unable to write hot checks to the tune of more than NINE TRILLION
BORROWED DOLLARS. Because without the central bank to borrow from, Bush
would not be able to steal from the American people to fund his nebulous
and endless "war on terror," his unconstitutional nation building or endless
"wars of liberation" to the tune of almost ONE TRILLION BORROWED DOLLARS.

Yes,
the numbers are staggering and there isn't going to be any quick fix.
Financial analysts whose reputations will soon be in tatters and craven
elitists like George Bush and his minions, are hoping that the massive
consumer dollars generated by the American people will save the day, but
it's not going to happen. This is why so many Americans support Dr.
RON Paul for president. They know he's the only candidate from either
party who truly understands our monetary system and limited, constitutional
government. One must remember that the next president won't be seated
in the Oval Office for another year and by that time, between hyper inflation
and more heavy taxation eating what little the American people have, the
picture is indeed grim.

If Ron
Paul were to win the presidency and Dr. Edwin Vieira as Secretary of the
Treasury in his administration, we would begin the recovery process towards
a true and honest monetary policy and an elimination of the unnecessary
federal income tax. If that doesn't happen, we will see more tragedy for
our nation. As Dr. Vieira said
almost a year ago: "Rest assured that what you decide today you will
be required to live with tomorrow. For the fiscal gap is a national trap
that is inexorably closing. Once the financial swallows come home to the
Disgrace of Columbia, there will be no going back-only "forward," into
the New World Disorder of economic dislocation and deprivation enforced
by a thoroughgoing police state."

You've
heard the expression, "It's not over until the fat lady sings." Can you
hear the cacophony of sound from millions of Americans yet? You will,
but it won't sound like singing.

Devvy Kidd authored
the booklets, Why
A Bankrupt America and Blind Loyalty;
2 million copies sold. Devvy appears on radio shows all over the country,
ran for Congress and is a highly sought after public speaker. Devvy belongs
to no organization.

She left the Republican
Party in 1996 and has been an independent voter ever since. Devvy isn't
left, right or in the middle; she is a constitutionalist who believes
in the supreme law of the land, not some political party. Her web site
(www.devvy.com) contains a tremendous
amount of information, solutions and a vast Reading Room.

With
two or three exceptions (Dr. Ron Paul being the stand out), the U.S. House
of Representatives, comprised of useful fools, the functionally illiterate
and stinking buzzards, has just passed another monumental piece of lunacy
called an "economic stimulus package."